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Katelyn Shove
SightLife™ Cornea Transplant Recipient
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Cornea Replacement & Sight Facts
Did You Know?
- Each year in the United States, approximately 35,000 people need cornea replacements to regain their sight.
- There are currently five million people in India who are waiting for corneal transplants. A great number of those who are blind in India are young adults or children.
- Keratoconus is a disease that affects the curvature of the cornea. It is a frequent cause of the need for a cornea replacement.
- People who live in developing countries are five to ten times more likely to go blind than those who live in highly-industrialized nations. Ninety percent of the world's blind live in developing countries.
- Every minute a child somewhere in the world goes blind.
- Treatments available to prevent and cure blindness are among the least expensive, most successful, and most cost-effective of all health interventions.
- Eighty percent of blindness in the world is avoidable.
